ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,116, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Methods and systems for managing resolution changes during image processing" was invented by Shawn Lee Hargreaves (Seattle), William John Kristiansen (Duvall, Wash.), Larry Nai-Ning Chen (Bellevue, Wash.) and Luke Jonathan Olsen (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems are configured for performing super-resolution processing for applications by a plurality of different hardware processing units that include hardware processing units that are native to the applications and hardware processing units that are non-native to the ap...